SAIC's Protest Over $89M Tech Support Contract Nixed

Law360, New York (October 22, 2012, 9:43 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Government Accountability Office on Monday denied an SAIC Inc. protest over the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's evaluation of potential organizational conflicts of interest in an $89 million contract to provide technical support services for the National Data Buoy Center.

SAIC had argued that the NOAA unfairly evaluated its approach to mitigating potential organizational conflicts of interests and did not rigorously examine potential organizational conflicts of interest issues for winning bidder Computer Sciences Corp. But the GAO ruled that SAIC couldn't show that the...